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In this chapter, we present four different examples of the application of the ideas of SME presented in the first eight chapters. Situational method construction often begins with team members identifying ‘on paper’ method fragments from a repository. In our first example (Sect. 9.1), we do just that by constructing a medium-sized methodology using the deontic matrices strategy of Fig. 6.1. This illustrates the mechanics of choosing appropriate fragments for a hypothetical situation and mirrors the approach we actually took with one software company in Spain.
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We acknowledge contributions of Dr. Fredrik Karlsson to this section.
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Note, however, that Karlsson and Ågerfalk (2009a) report on a third project within the same organisation where this was not the case, and analyse the consequences.
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Henderson-Sellers, B., Ralyté, J., Ågerfalk, P.J., Rossi, M. (2014). Examples of Constructed Processes. In: Situational Method Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41467-1_9
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